Lawyer: Fotis Dulos Is Dead

Accused wife-killer Fotis Dulos died at a Bronx, N.Y. hospital Thursday, his lawyer said. The 52-year-old succumbed to injuries sustained Tuesday in a suicide attempt by carbon monoxide poisoning, according to Norm Pattis. “Fotis Dulos was declared dead tonight at 5:32,” Pattis said in a televised interview outside Jacobi Medical Center. “It’s been a truly horrific day for the family, filled with difficult decisions, medical tests and meeting the requirements to determine death,” Pattis said. He referred to Fotis Dulos’s family from his native Greece, not the five children of Fotis and Jennifer Dulos, now orphans, who had lost their mother May 24.

Fotis Dulos Employee Emerges as Key Figure in Murder Case

After pedaling his bicycle from Waveny Park to Welles Lane to kill his estranged wife, and then steering an employee’s pickup truck back upstate with her corpse, Fotis Dulos failed to remove from the vehicle the dark-colored, hooded sweatshirt he’d been wearing while cycling, according to interviews and evidence cited in a state police detective’s sworn affidavit made public last week. The Toyota Tacoma’s owner would discover a blue hoodie in a red pail inside the truck on May 28, four days after the murder, according to Detective John Kimball of the state police Western District Major Crime Squad. Kimball’s lengthy affidavits—now spread across seven felony arrest warrant applications connected to the disappearance and murder of Jennifer Dulos—show that the man who came upon the sweatshirt, Pawel Gumienny, has played a critical role in a multi-agency investigation that culminated Jan. 7 in murder charges against Fotis Dulos and conspiracy to commit murder charges for his girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, and personal friend and civil attorney Kent Mawhinney. Gumienny, a project manager at Fotis Dulos’s construction company, first was revealed as a key source for investigators in September, when police brought a second round of hindering and tampering charges against Fotis Dulos and Troconis.